Download or read book Yeats and English Renaissance Literature written by Wayne K Chapman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to make extensive use of unpublished manuscripts to show how a period of English literature affected W.B.Yeats's development as a poet. Besides presenting a factual account of his acquaintance with English Renaissance writers based on evidence from his library and elsewhere, the study examines his response to numerous minor figures and several major ones - including Spenser, Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne and Milton.